2010 News Archive

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The consecutive string of having at least one National Champion in at least one discipline every year since 1983 continues with Elise & Robert’s National Championship in Intermediate Pairs! Congratulations to Robert & Elise and their coaches, Peter Oppegard and Themi Leftheris. Congratulations to all our Junior Nationals skaters, their families and coaches on your fine efforts at this year’s Junior Nationals!

Sunday 12/19/10: JNs wrapped up with more great skating by LAFSC members. Daniel Samohin finished 4th in Intermediate Men, earning the pewter medal. In the same event, Sahmaro Rockhold finished 18th. Lauren Campbell had a lovely, clean skate and earned 7th in Intermediate Ladies. Heidi Han won the Juvenile Girls silver medal and was just 0.25 points off the gold medal. Logan Leonesio and his Juvenile Dance partner completed their freeskate program and placed 18th. Congratulations to all our LAFSC competitors for their fine showing! You make us proud!

Friday 12/17/10: Another busy day of skating for our Jr. Nationals competitors. Winning the National Championship in Intermediate Pairs are Elise Middleton and Robert Hennings! Congratulations! We are proud of your accomplishment. In the same event, Arind de Los Reyes and Darian Weiss skated a clean program and finished 11th in the… nation! After the short program for the Intermediate Men, Daniel Samohin is in second place, less than one point out of first. Sahmaro Rockhold is in 20th place, and could move up significantly in the long program. LAFSC’s Lauren Campbell is in sixth after the Intermediate Ladies short program. In 20th place after the Juvenile compulsory dances and looking to improve their standing in the freeskate are LAFSC member Logan Leonesio and partner Cassidy Klopstock. Great job to those who have finished, and wishing those who have still to skate good luck and a great skate! Everyone in the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club is behind you all the way!

Thursday 12/16/10: LAFSC members continue to make a great showing at Junior Nationals. Sahmaro Rockhold will join Daniel Samohin in the Intermediate Men’s final round after finishing 9th in the very tough qualifying group B. Juvenile Girls Qualifying Round Group A was won by LAFSC member and Southwest Pacific Juvenile Girls Champion, Heidi Han. Good luck in the finals, skaters!

Wednesday 12/15/10: Congratulations to LAFSC’s Lauren Campbell for placing 4th in Intermediate Ladies Qualifying Group A at Jr. Nationals! Way to go, Lauren! We will all be rooting for you in the final round! Placing 2nd in Intermediate Men Qualifying Group A, Daniel Samohin has earned a spot in the final round! Congratulations, Daniel! Also doing LAFSC proud in this group were Othniel Chan (11th) and Darian Weiss (18th). Way to go LAFSC!

Congratulations to LAFSC Members at the Ice Challenge (12/19/2010)

LAFSC member Don Baldwin, with partner Tiffany Vise, won the silver medal at
the Ice Challenge held in Graz, Austria. LAFSC competitor Themi Leftheris,
with partner Lindsay Davis, finished fourth at the same competition.
Congratulations to both teams!!

The Los Angeles Figure Skating Club is proud to be represented by the
Following skaters at the 2011 Championships! (12/19/2010)

Attention Skaters: Due to the number of test requests received, all of the Wednesday night Club sessions at Pickwick starting with July 21st and continuing through August 25th will be used for test sessions. There will be no freestyles available at any of these sessions.

Club Jacket Contest (7/9/2010)

We are proud to announce a contest to design this year’s 2011 LAFSC Qualifying Competitors Jacket. This contest is open to all current LAFSC Home Club Members. The winning design will be utilized for this year’s qualifying competitors jacket, and the winning designer will receive special recognition and a special gift at our Annual Regionals/Sectionals Competitors Send Off Party.

Deadline for entries is August 6, 2010.

Please download the attached template and note the suggested guidelines for your design. Use this template to design your submission then scan and submit your final design to LAFSCTEAMJACKET@aol.com. Be sure to write your name on your design!

Guidelines For Designing the 2011 LAFSC Competitors Jacket:

Black or Royal Blue should be used for the main colors of the jacket. Gold can and should be used as an accent color. The trim on the collar can be either black, royal blue or gold. Zippers can be black or royal blue.

Please try and keep the design simply and sporty. Make it simple and something you and your fellow club mates will be proud to wear.

The LAFSC on the back is in gold only. The club logo, the skater’s first name and Competition Team 2011 will be embroidered on the front upper left hand side of the jacket.

According to the 2010 Governing Council report of action, the new requirements for well-balanced programs for the Juvenile, Open Juvenile and Intermediate levels will take effect June 1. Therefore, at the 2010 Los Angeles Open Championships, programs for these levels will be judged according to these new standards.

LAFSC is proud to have 3 of its skaters named to team envelopes for the 2010-2011
season:

Keauna McLaughlin (w/Rockne Brubaker): Team A, Tier Two

Austin Kanallakan: Team C, Tier One

Katarina Kulgeyko: Team C, Tier Two

The envelope level is primarily determined by an ahlete’s performance in international
and U.S. Figure Skating competitions during the previous season and is used to determine
funding levels.

Congratulations Keauna, Austin and Katarina!

LAFSC’s Adult Skaters Win Medals at Adult Nationals (4/20/2010)

Congratulations to our adult skaters who competed at Adult Nationals last week in Minneapolis. We are proud to be the Home Club of so many talented adult skaters!

Gold
Pairs

Laurie
Webb (w/Diego Hemingway) 2nd

Master
Novice Ladies V Free Skate

Joan
Chanel 1st

Championship Gold Men:

Phillip
Manzo 6th

Gold
Ladies IV

Wanda
Gelsebach 4th

Gold Men
1

Phillip
Manzo 1st

Championship Pairs

Laurie
Webb (w/Diego Hemingway) 3rd

Gold Men
1

Phillip
Manzo 1st

Championship Master Intermediate/Novice Men

Keith
Newcombe 4th

Bronze
Ladies III

Colette
Scott 1st

Joan Bys
3rd

Bronze
Pairs

June
Palazzo & Bobby Polchuck 2nd

Bronze
Solo Dance Group B First Dance

Joan Bys
2nd

Bronze
Solo Dance Group B First Final Round Dance

Joan Bys
1st

Ladies
Artistic/Dramatic Interpretive III Group A

Joan Bys
9th

Ladies
Light Entertainment/Comedy Interpretive III

Joan Bys
2nd

Master
Ladies Artistic/Dramatic Interpretive IV

Wanda
Gelsebach 7th

Master
Ladies Artistic/Dramatic Interpretive V

Joan
Chanel 1st

Master
Ladies Light Entertainment/Comedy Interpretive IV

Wanda
Gelsebach 4th

Master
Ladies Light Entertainment/Comedy Interpretive V

Joan Chanel
2nd

Adult Figure Skating Championships (1/7/2010)

REMINDER!!! The deadline to register for the 2010 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships is a little more than a week away. Entries for the event will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 15. Please visit the Members Only portion of www.usfigureskating.org to submit your registration.